Paul Tucker is the author of Unelected Power and Global Discord, a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a former central banker.

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International

Monetary System Stability as a Precondition for Local and International Order

Institute of International Monetary Research | Novels can tell us a lot about the world, and about a time. At the beginning of the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – the avatar of Pessoa, the poet not the LSE economist for whom Portugal can also hope great things – the eponymous hero is disembarking in Lisbon after a long journey. Away for 16 years, he lacks local currency but that doesn’t matter at all for the porter who helps with the luggage. Not only a particular world but also a greater truth is captured in how this is described: “I have only English money, Oh, that’s fine, and he saw ten shillings placed into his right hand, coins that shone more brightly than the sun itself” (my emphasis). READ MORE

Tanner Lecture Commentary

How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic
Remedying Institutional Failures. READ MORE